Deputies approved on Thursday in first reading a bill to automatically index student scholarships to inflation and pay them over twelve months.
The bill, introduced by the GDR group, provides for automatic annual indexation of need-based scholarships, at least to inflation. It also introduces annualization of payments to shift from ten to twelve months.
The measures were adopted almost unanimously by left-wing groups and the Rassemblement National. Deputies from Renaissance, Horizons, LR and UDR abstained, citing an estimated cost of more than 500 million euros to public finances.
The bill must now be examined by the Senate.
